The palace wall reflects the moon

Chapter 22 Only Du Kangyi
Liu Qingshu's leg was injured and she couldn't get out of bed, so she couldn't have dinner together.

So only Xin Wei sat with Shen Xiao at the red sandalwood round table in Weiyang Palace, watching the maids bring up the exquisite dishes one after another, and then watching them all retreat.

Shouldn't there be someone serving the dishes?
Xin Wei didn't ask, just silently picked up a chopstick of food.

Shen Xiao paused while eating food and drinking in a muffled voice, and looked at her in slight surprise.

Xin Wei stopped using her chopsticks at a loss, not knowing what she had done wrong.

"You didn't eat this before." Shen Xiao said.

Xin Wei remembered that when she was a child, she refused to eat mutton because she was born in the year of the sheep.I don’t really understand what the Chinese zodiac is, so I just regard the sheep as my patron saint.

But now, she no longer thinks so.

After eating the mutton, Xin Wei asked: "Did the emperor know me before?"

Shen Xiao took a sip of wine, his complicated eyes fell on the braised mutton, and he murmured in a low voice: "The small pond is still the same, the colorful mandarin ducks are playing together, things have changed and people have changed."

Xin Wei picked up the celadon white peony wine jug and filled him with a glass.

"Take care of the people in front of you."

Shen Xiao weighed the wine glass and looked at her with an unclear expression: "Xizhi is the person in front of you...who are you talking about?"

"Of course it should be Concubine Liu," Xin Wei said, "Isn't the Emperor also deeply in love with Concubine Liu?"

"Concubine Liu?"

He laughed, drank the wine in one gulp, looked at her and said, "They all say that Concubine Liu looks like you. I didn't think so at first, but today I do."

Xin Wei’s eyebrows skipped a beat.

Liu Qingshu used to be dignified and beautiful, but today she is in a miserable state, scarred, miserable, and miserable. Does this look like her?
What is this, criticizing her appearance?

Shen Xiao's eyes darkened slightly, and he suddenly changed the topic and said calmly: "What exactly do you want to do by pulling the imperial sister to plot against me?"

Xin Wei stood up and stood to one side in fear.

"Why did the emperor say this? How dare I concubine plot against the emperor?"

Shen Xiao leaned back, his lips were frivolous, and he looked at her with a playful look: "You could have asked the imperial sister to go to Fengyi Palace to fish for people a few days ago, but you have to wait for Concubine Liu to be tortured, making her think that the only way When you are facing a dead end, and you come to the rescue again, do you think that only when a person is in a desperate situation, will he be particularly grateful for the life-saving grace?"

He can certainly see through a lot.

From sending Chu Ying away, to the poison in the stew pot, to today's hearing of Fengyi Palace to testify for Concubine Liu, even though the soldiers made dangerous moves, she got the benefits in the end.

Either for favors or to intensify the dispute between Yong'an Palace and Weiyang Palace, what exactly does she want to do?
Xin Wei thought to herself, he really has a villain's heart.Even though the Queen had beaten him into submission, and when they were brought to the imperial court, he would find mercy again, to show his great grace, and make General Liu and Liu Qingshu shed tears of gratitude.

He was so calculating that he would speculate on her in this way.

"It takes time to find out the whole story, collect evidence, and persuade people to testify. The eldest princess must convince people with reason, so she waited until today." Xin Wei's eyes were deep and her tone was low, "The concubine is plotting against the emperor , are they not just ants shaking the tree?"

Shen Xiao smiled: "You used to be domineering, and no one in Jinling City could make you submissive. Now your knees are weak and you have more thoughts."

Xin Wei thought to herself, how much are knees worth? If her father had known how to lower his eyebrows earlier and not take over everything, he would not have made countless enemies in the court. Now he can probably stay safely in Jinling City and have a place. .

"Your Majesty, a few words can kill my concubines," Xin Wei said pretentiously, "Your Majesty, please stop scaring my concubines."

The more she behaved like this, the more Shen Xiao felt a lump of air blocking his throat, unable to go up or down.

He could only take a sip of wine and said coldly: "Do you really think that I will tolerate you forever?"

"Of course not," Xin Wei stopped her pretentious tone and said with a wry smile, "I once thought that the love between children is as long as the blue sea and the sky, and can withstand all kinds of difficulties and dangers. After all, I was wrong. Human affairs, the world Lu, the word "love" is the most useless." Since she couldn't deal with it, she stopped pretending.Doesn't he want to hear the truth?Then she tells the truth.

But does he like to hear the truth?

Shen Xiao put the white jade wine glass on the table with a slightly stiff hand, and looked into the moonlight outside the open window. Her former bright and proud appearance appeared in front of her eyes, and her eyes couldn't help but darken.

The picture in her mind suddenly changed, and her eyes, which were once bright as pearls, turned as dark as a cold night, with a light of disdain and determination, looking at him coldly, as if countless ice vertebrae were attacking him fiercely. Come stabbing.

These eyes, this cold gaze, often suddenly appeared in his mind during his leisure time, making him feel like he was drowning in a swamp and unable to breathe.

Shen Xiao felt as if there were insects and ants gnawing at his head, which was densely aching, and his ears were buzzing. He tried to concentrate, closed his eyes for a moment, and then slowly opened them, and his eyes became clear again.

"There is no need to mention the past," he coughed, and then said, "You shouldn't come back."

When she came back, she disturbed his thoughts and made him uneasy.

"Yes, it shouldn't be."

Xin Wei echoed his words and said helplessly, "It's really because of this face that the Queen forcibly summoned me to the palace. It was not my intention."

The queen took the portrait and searched throughout the Great Xia Dynasty. Who could escape and who dared not to obey the portrait?
Shen Xiao frowned and thought for a long time, then raised the pot and filled her empty white jade cup with wine.

That’s all, good food and good wine are part of the nature of food.

He shouldn't have said this to her.After knowing her for more than ten years, doesn't he know her well enough?She will do whatever she wants to do.

At worst, when she couldn't bear it anymore, someone would tie her up and take her out of the palace, back to Gusu.

"Lansheng is not as drunk as Du Kang." Xin Wei said as she watched him pour the wine.

"Do you still want to get drunk?"

On New Year's Eve, she was so drunk that she was as soft as mud, sometimes frightened, sometimes in pain. Wasn't this drunken madness enough to lose her face?
"It's boring if you're not drunk, and the wine doesn't taste good." Xin Wei said.

The pungent and sweet taste burned her throat and always made her cough up and cry, but it was very satisfying.

Shen Xiao leaned back in his chair and looked at her carefully, with a smile on his lips.

"A lonely man and a widowed woman, are you sure you want to drink Dukang?"

The man was drunk, so it was difficult to hold back his impulse.If something happened, I would regret it again.

"Mo Ji," Xin Wei stared at him and said, "Don't you dare."

Seeing her urging tone, Shen Xiao recalled the past in a daze.

She and the imperial sister always had many like-minded things, and together they dared to break the news.Therefore, they always looked down upon him, thinking that he was not bold enough, took care of this and that, and was too cautious.

His nature was like this, but he really envied her for being uninhibited, daring to do things that he didn't dare to do, free and easy, and as proud as the bright moon on the river.

She is the bright moon on the river, how could she fall into the dust, groveling in the palace wall, and the same group of women have all the traps?
Shen Xiao closed his eyes and said in a low voice: "I have an early morning meeting tomorrow and I can't drink too much. If you want to drink Dukang, go back to Huguangxie to drink."

Before he could stand up, Xin Wei knelt down and saluted, and said in a clear voice: "Your Majesty."

She wished he would leave quickly.

Shen Xiao twitched the corner of his mouth, hesitated for a moment, stood up, and strode out in anger.

(End of this chapter)